You could hear gasps in the press room when Lorde and Imagine Dragons weren”t included in this category given that they were two of the biggest success stories of the year. Having said that, it”s hard to argue with this bumper crop -with one exception. The one act who shouldn”t have been nominated is Ed Sheeran. Given that he received a song-of-the-year nomination last year for his break-through hit, “The A Team,” last year would have been the time to nominate him for this award. It used to be that if you had been nominated for a Grammy, you couldn”t be eligible for Best New Artist subsequently, but that rule changed a few years ago.

I would say that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have a lock on this award, but the Grammy voters are notoriously hard to predict here, for example, picking Bon Iver, who had already had enough success that he shouldn”t have been eligible in 2012, or jazz darling Esperanza Spalding in 2011. If the Nashville contingency all votes for Kacey Musgraves, she could take it, just as Zac Brown Band did in 2010. And I”d never rule out Blake somehow nabbing it.

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Bull fucking shit, Kendrick Lamar should win. Think about it. Who is the better artist?

By: Marley

01.25.2014 @ 1:04 AM

Kendrick Lamar. His songs don’t get annoying after the fifth time, he has more star potential, he’s connected to Drake, making him extremely powerful, and he doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs ever making him an amazing influence.